Wishful thinking that it would release in a month! You would start seeing a lot more leaks through their supply chains with packaging and even the camera itself.

Besides all that, it doesn't make any sense as MS will market the [email protected] out of the new name and make sure the world knows its coming before it does in MS fashion.

They wouldn't change their plan on a whim like that, but I could see Sony do it. Primarily because they have shown so much of PS Move already and everything seems ready. The name is out, the games have been shown and some advertisements... not sure what else they need.

The rumor did get me thinking though. Would it have been far-fetched if MS did that?

Regarding MS being ready though... who says they aren't? Just because they showed you and the rest of the media very little doesn't mean they haven't been working on the product backstage. The product seems ready if they've already sent devkits to developers. I am expecting MS to share more at E3, but I wouldn't say it's not ready just because we haven't seen much from MS. That's just how MS is controlling the product speculation. This "MS is not ready" stuff is just Natal Nay-Sayers trying to bury the product. We know nothing of Natal, so it's logically invalid to certainly conclude that it's the best ever or that it's not ready.

I speculate that MS wouldn't have a product that has been sitting around doing nothing for the past year and MS surely would progress on it to keep their brand's reputation. However, their strategy just seems totally opposite to Sony's. Doesn't mean that they have nothing to show. Though, if at E3 they show nothing then I'll be worried, but that's unlikely to happen.

I'm not saying that MS isn't ready, but rather that the market isn't because MS has CHOSEN to not push (i.e. marketed) it out yet. MS has once stated that this is like a console re-launch, and one month to do so isn't realistic.

.. The reason why they responded so quickly instead of saying "Microsoft does not comment on rumours and speculation blah blah.." is because people would be anticipating the release announcement during E3 and a lot of people would have their hopes smashed.

This would be idiotic, I haven’t seen a single commercial about natal, MS needs to have a huge marketing campaign in order for natal succeeded but then we go back to the price, if natal is well price then it well sell good in the holiday season, no matter what the move does but I only see one way of things playing out, natal is shown to the media and they crazy for it but it doesn’t have a killer app while Sony shows the move with one killer app and they media again spits in Sony’s face and say natal is better and Sony is just too hardcore…

It would make - a little more sense - to put it out shortly after E3 and in the glow of after-hype so they could then work any kinks out than to dump it on the Christmas crowd and have some major issue turn up.

And if MS makes the mistake of following old habits, then Natal's going to either have software issues, wont have the complete software suite as has been hyped and advertised, ie the UI, or worse, there will be hardware issues that weren't sufficiently put through QC that they will try to fix through software patches.

Given that it is just an add-on, don't expect the public to be as forgiving as with RRoD if the last happens. No matter what compensation is offered.